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London, ON · Private foundation

The Brian and Heather Semkowski Family Foundation

The foundation made donations to other registered charities during the fiscal year.

C$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
C$5,100
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
London Regional Children's MuseumC$30,000
St. Joseph's Health Care Foundation of LondonC$25,000
Wellspring LondonC$20,000
Society of Saint Vincent de PaulC$15,000
London Health Sciences FoundationC$5,100
SARI Therapeutic RidingC$5,000
AnimalertC$5,000
Growing Chefs! OntarioC$5,000
Family Foundations InstituteC$5,000
London and Area Food Bank Inc.C$4,710
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$420k · 10 repeat orgsC$186k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

C$420k
C$156k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • LH
    London Health Sciences Foundation
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$50k · revenue +123%
  • LR
    London Regional Children's Museum
    2× · 2018–2024 · C$40k · revenue +112%
  • GC
    Growing Chefs! Ontario
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$27k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CT
    CMHA Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health
    one grant, 2023 · C$40k · revenue +6%
  • IC
    Indwell Community Homesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue +99%
  • YO
    Youth Opportunities Unlimitedgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +70%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
London Health Sciences Centre

London Health Sciences Centre is a teaching hospital located in London Ontario Canada. LHSC provides compassionate care to communities we serve

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2
London Cares Homeless Response Services

London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…

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3
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Canada
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4
Ronald Mcdonald House Southwestern Ontario

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Southwestern Ontario is an Ontario not-for-profit charitable corporation formed in 1985. During 2024 the Organization changed its legal name from 'Southwestern Ontario Children’s Care Inc.' to…

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5
Accessible Housing London

Housing: (low - income accessibility)

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6
London Health Sciences Centre Research Inc.

To carry on or promote medical scientific research and experimental development (including basic and clinical research to produce scientific knowledge that contributes to the alleviation and prevention of human disease) at or in…

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7
Ivey Business School Foundation

Ivey Business School Foundation operates facilities to support educational programs and research for the Ivey Business School and Western University. Facilities are maintained in two Ontario locations: London and Toronto. The Foundation…

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8
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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9
London Children's Connection Inc

London children's connection provides childcare and related services for infants through to elementary school children

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10
Homes Unlimited London Inc

To build acquire and operate low cost housing in London Ontario

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11
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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12
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Joseph's Health Care Foundation of London and the most unlike its peers is Family Foundations Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSt. Joseph's Health Care Foundation — C$130,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWellspring London — C$90,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetLondon Health Sciences Foundation — C$50,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLondon Regional Children's Museum — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCMHA Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndwell Community Homes — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Chefs! Ontario — C$27,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTeresina Larizza Charity — C$26,325 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetLondon Food Bank — C$26,255 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSociety of Saint Vincent de Paul — C$15,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Heartland Ontario — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Health Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt.Joseph's Hospice — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLondon Humane Society — C$9,459 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys' and Girls' Club of London — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Tire Jumpstart — C$6,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Foundations Institute — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSARI Therapeutic Riding — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNational Service Dogs — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAnimalert — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetStart2Finish — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOperation Walk Canada Inc. — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMoorelands Community Services — C$1,739 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarleton University — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

London Community Foun…United Way Elgin Midd…London Knights Alumni…The Walter J Blackbur…Mowbray and Doris Sif…The Lawson FoundationThe London Police Ass…The Jack and Barbara …Westminster College F…The Agape Foundation …Gerald C Baines Chari…The Mitchell and Kath…
London Community FoundationON16.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: London Community Foundation · United Way Elgin Middlesex · London Knights Alumni Foundation · The Walter J Blackburn Foundation · Mowbray and Doris Sifton Family Foundation · The Lawson Foundation · The London Police Association Charity Fund · The Jack and Barbara Hay Foundation · Westminster College Foundation · The Agape Foundation of London · Gerald C Baines Charitable Foundation · The Mitchell and Kathryn Baran Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 857334288:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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